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...easy to jump on Afrocentrics, but it's Eurocentrism that's screwing up the world. Afrocentrism doesn't have the power. It would take billions of dollars and many years to do the kind of job on the American psyche that the Eurocentric educational system has done. When Cornel West says, for example, that Afrocentrics are misguided, I am reminded that the basic book of Western Civilization, the bible--which I'm reading line by line and reading all the commentary on--justifies slavery, misogyny, missandry, homophobia, persecution of followers of other gods, and that the central figure of Western...
...panel, titled "The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Crack," featured Margaret Burnham, Henry Louis Gates Jr., bell hooks, Glen Loury, Eugene Rivers and Cornel R. West '74. Professor of Afro-American Studies K. Anthony Appiah moderated the debate...
There is no need mention the hustling which scholar Cornel West describes as being a crucial part of African-American existence. One dare not broach the ugly, inelegant aspects of negritude. All the disturbing topics are brushed aside with the same nervous smile that seems to flitter about the unasked DuBoisian question, "How does it feel to be a problem...
...pieces that focus more closely on Malcolm X himself are equally revealing. Cornel West's essay on "Malcolm X and Black Rage" deals with the transformative, freeing anger so central to Malcolm's thought and his electrifying oratory style. For West, Malcolm articulated outrage at "the sheer absurdity that confronts human beings of African descent in this country--the incessant assaults on Black intelligence, beauty, character and possibility." With his trademark eloquence, West elucidates how that rage served to perform a "Black psychic conversion," a defiant re-evaluation of the self that is free of American racist values. West argues...
...Cornel has emerged as a master of pedagogy and intellectualism, harnessing the Black ministerial demeanor reminiscent of Martin Luther King, Jr. but with the added intellectual panache," says Kilson, who was one of West's teachers...